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Re:Australian Federal Police and FBI nab underworld figures ... by cromka on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @02:55AM (#27431389)
So Vice says that an external source came to offer the app, while the Australian Police "said the plan to use an encrypted app was hatched overseas over a few beers with FBI agents in 2018, before police figured out how to decrypt all messages."

I wonder how this all ties together. As someone mentioned here, there surely be some movie about it.

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Re:Australian Federal Police and FBI nab underworld figures ... by marlor on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @03:19AM (#27431523)
It’s likely the FBI mentioned they had an app they could leverage, Australia noted that there was a gap in the local market after Phantom had been taken down, and the two agencies decided to seed the app into the Australian criminal underworld to see how far it would spread.
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Re:Australian Federal Police and FBI nab underworld figures ... by cromka on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @03:44AM (#27431668)
Yep, sounds plausible.
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